Words for the Day… by Jacob Bronowski
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all […]
Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more.
If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing — The Wasteland
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
The European Community, now Union, has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperors. — The Churchill Factor
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.